Crackdown against profiteering; 520 shopkeepers, vendors challaned.

KARACHI -- The Sindh Bureau of Supply and Prices Department fined as many as 520 shopkeepers for overcharging masses, for not displaying the official price lists or selling substandard quality items across the province during last 24 hours.

Special Assistant to Sindh Chief Minister on Bureau of Supply and Prices Department Dr. Khatu Mal on Friday in a statement said that the officers of the department along with the price magistrates challaned 520 shopkeepers, vendors and imposed fines of over Rs. 940,000/-.

He said that around 2700 groceries shops, fruit and vegetables sellers and chicken and meat sellers and other edible items across the province were checked.

Khatu Mal said that in Karachi Division alone, 98 profiteers were...

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